Europe’s commitment to Ireland during Brexit negotiations made one Irish individual “jump for joy” and want to kiss European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, supposedly. During Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s trip to Brussels on Wednesday, a photograph emerged of Mr Juncker holding a comically large green card, which said ‘Thank You From Ireland’. Despite initial murmurings on Twitter that Mr Varadkar had presented the senior Brussels politician with the card, it was clarified it had been sent to Mr Juncker from an Irish citizen. Speaking later that day Mr Juncker said he wished to keep the sender’s identity private. When a spokesman for Mr Juncker was asked if the EC president had received any well wishing cards from Britain, he said: “I have no idea unfortunately.”

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2019 09:33 UTC